Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me. <br />Stones and sticks break only skin, while words are ghosts that haunt me. <br />Slant and curved the word-swords fall, it pierces and sticks inside me. <br />Bats and bricks may ache through bones, but words can mortify me. <br />Pain from words has left its' scar, on mind and hear that's tender. <br />Cuts and bruises have not healed, it's words that I remember.<br /><br />Ruby Redfort<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sticks-and-stones-10/
